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Show NEWS NOTES OF S. L DIVISION What Railroad People Are Doing Told in S. P. Bulletin , At all points on the Salt Lake division divi-sion the prospects nr. good for heavy crops Wheat, oats barley and hayj will show a splendid average yield per' acre In the vlcfnltj of Wlnnemucca the hay yield, which will be very good.l I will not be sufficient to take care of the cattle and sheep raised on the' ranges, and win necessttats large ship- m nts of livestock In the fall of the I y.-nr to feeding points. The stock and ranges aro in the very best condition at the presont time. At Wlnnemucca some new prospects pros-pects are opening up, which may develop de-velop into mines, several of them very promising with good ore. The Silver State Chemical company Is contemplating contem-plating the establishment of a chom-1 leal and small refining plant. There Is also a new court house, a new fne-story fne-story hotel and a new federal building build-ing under course of construction. A new Catholic church is to be built soon as well as a number of new residences. resi-dences. Business is generally good In that vicinity, Tho maintenance of way depart-I depart-I ment is laying new 90-pound steel ! rail between Jackson and Groome. ; Nevada, a distance of 18 miles, and I it Is the Intention to carry this work a distance approximately 07 miles from the east end of tho Great Bait i Lake trestle to Luein. It is worth : noting that the old SO-pound steel i rail was right on the trans-continental line and stood IS years of hard I service. NY . Johnson, formerly chief clerk l in this oftlce. is now chief clerk lu the office of the regiun.il engineer, J . W Harlow, room 22 1. Pacific building. build-ing. San Francisco, and is handling work in connection with railroad claims against the government. Mr. Johnson is making his home in Bcrkc- j icy- A. C. Emerson has been appointed j chief clerk. Salt Lake division, succeeding suc-ceeding Mr. Johnson. F. J Uartonek i being appointed assistant chief clerk. F. Turner, assistant division en-I en-I glneer. has been transferred to the i Tucson division as division engineer. J H Harshaw of the engineers' ; force has been transferred to ell Paso ns assistant superintendent and dll-sion dll-sion engineer. E S. Adams has been appointed ! car distributor of the Salt Lake dl-I dl-I vision, effective June 1, 1H20. Permanent changes In agencies were made a3 follows AY. Y. Manning. Elko, El-ko, effective May 8, 192u; J. J Cul-len. Cul-len. BllSanvUle, effective Mrv 13 I 1920; Y. P. Shelly. Wabuska. effective effec-tive March 1. 1920. The clerks of the M. of W. at Ogden, Og-den, accepted on invitation by Otis AYecks. division engineer, for a Sunday Sun-day outing at Saline, June 13th. It is an Ideal beach for lovers of salt water bathing, one can walk out into Great Salt Lake for a mllo or more and the water never exceeds in depth five feet. Leo J. Clark and Miss Edna Lud-wtg Lud-wtg were married on June yth. Roth were cmplo.ses of this office. Mr. Clark was formerly assistant division accountant and was recently transferred trans-ferred to the staff of Assistant Auditor Audi-tor K Adams at San I- ranclSCO, while Mis Ltldwlg was uno of our transportation trans-portation tlineki ej. i s Other benedicts bene-dicts of the month were Archie Shp-pard, Shp-pard, accountant, and Don K Hastings, Hast-ings, timekeeper. S. P. Bulletin |